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Yearly Archives: 2008
Swedish creativity
I think that this is the strangest idea I have ever seen as reality TV: a Swedish production company is going around the Cannes TV festival with an idea for a show where pregnant single women look for stepfathers for … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Sweden
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A distinctive programme
I maintain in my own usage a distinction between “program” and “programme”. This doesn’t depend on whether I am writing to Americans or not. The distinction is between two referents (I nearly wrote “things”, but neither are tangible). A program … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Literature, nördig
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hymns for public execution
I note that Bishop Alan Wilson is celebrating an earlier Buckinghamshire Vicar who went mad but not before writing a hymn which was was thought suitable for public executions. What hymns would readers wish to hear at such a moment … Continue reading Continue reading
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What we learn from polls
via Crooked Timber, the purest possible illustration of the thesis that to many Americans “Muslim” means “dark and dangerous“, nothing more: There is little evidence that the recent news about Obama’s affiliation with the United Church of Christ has dispelled … Continue reading Continue reading
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Kuka Mitä Häh?
The Leningrad Cowboys perform Sweet Home Alabama, backed by the Red Army Choir. The Leningrad Cowboys are the stars of the greatest film about America and Rock and Roll ever made; there is a clip from that on Youtube, too. Continue reading
Instant bibliographies
I hate bibliographies, and I suspect that any tool I bought to handle them would consume immense quantities of otherwise productive slightly less unproductive time. On the other hand, I need to have reliable references and footnotes from time to … Continue reading Continue reading
Polyglot proficiency
I belong to a sort of informal walking club which involves a bunch of middle-aged farts shambling around the Essex countryside for a couple of hours on a Sunday before stopping at a pub for lunch. It’s not exactly exercise, … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Blather
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